haha well it's different from smoking a cigarette. you don't want to inhale it into your lungs. It's much much thicker than a cigarette smoke. Basically when you inhale it through the hose it'll pull the smoke down through the water causing it to bubble. Then it'll float back up travel through the hose. I'd compare it to smoking a cigar or cigarello. You don't actually inhale it into your lungs. You smoke it for the flavor, and exhale the smoke. Well I guess you could, but man that'd make me cough up a lung.